Suppose you are picnicking with your family in a park. It is the last conceivable time you’ll be able to splurge on a day off from work and enjoy a little cheese and wine because you just lost everything you own to a natural disaster. You are broke. Suddenly, a man arrives at your site […]
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OUTLINE: John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress“God’s grace is the most incredible and insurmountable truth ever to be revealed to the human heart, which is why God has given us His Holy Spirit to superintend the process of more fully revealing the majesty of the work done on our behalf by our Savior.” John Bunyan, The
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Peace is a simple concept, war is not. Growing up was scary at times. I remember turning on the TV, watching the news, even seeing grainy footage of absurdly named bombs, Fat Man and Little Boy, being dropped on the Japanese, and being really afraid of nuclear war. Looking back, the so-called “Cold War” produced fear on steroids. To a
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OUTLINE: Jn 5:17But He (Jesus) answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.”God Loves OrphansGod our Father said “I want you. I’ll save you. Come into My home. I will be your Father.” God’s Love For OrphansWhen we approach someone with the Gospel, we are letting them know that God wants
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OUTLINE: Jn 5:17But He (Jesus) answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.” God Loves OrphansGod our Father said “I want you. I’ll save you. Come into My home. I will be your Father.” God’s Love For OrphansWhen we approach someone with the Gospel, we are letting them know that God
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God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him. For such a man I have no message. —
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“What are we celebrating?” This one question has been recurring from my pulpit for quite some time now. The context typically includes an admixture of invitation, partiality, oversight, and misguided emotions. The example most often mentioned concerns family (I’m speaking of blood relatives, particularly immediate family members). Family represents a natural petri dish for conflict.
Love and humility. What a pair. To abide in the first is to know the second. To know the second is to respond with the first. The dynamic is divinely orchestrated as a blessing for believers alone, a harmonious sphere of godliness. In the beginning [before Creation] was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
Just recently it occurred to me that my ministry has been very much characterized by the Parable of the Wedding Feast. As you read the passage below, remember the context; Jesus was speaking to the chief priests, the Pharisees, and the elders in the Jewish Temple, their most venerated place. Also keep in mind that, like
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The referee’s open palm slammed onto the rubber mat and the hushed crowd erupted in thunderous applause. The wrestler in the blue uniform (let’s call him the “blue wrestler”) had finally pinned his opponent after a long fought, agonizing match. The audience rooting for the young man in the red uniform (the “red wrestler”) was
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